How do you feel about the massive influx of users?
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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I am one of those influx.
I'm realllllly just hoping we don't choke the "main" instances completely to death before the lemmy backend can have some developer hours dumped into it to support better per-instance horizontal scaling.
Yeah. It's gonna be a rough first couple months. App development needs to catch up. Server support needs to catch up. Many subs need to figure out how to move over their communities. I'm tempted to start making communities and just copy-pasting the side bars and pinned threads, but Im not a mod for anything, so it feels like it'd be plagiarism.
It desperately needs lower friction remote community subscribing and a user migration workflow between instances.
Yeah, currently I too frequently end up viewing communities from outside the context of my login, it's a pain that I hope gets remediated soon
If you think of it more like email than Reddit it's fine. When you register at Gmail instead of yahoo there isn't much expectation that you'll port all your old email over.
It's great that I get to use the local lemmy.ca and it will sync this comment to lemmy.ml where you'll read it on another Canadian hosted server. :D
I think the community centralization will be harder, but that's mainly as there (as far as I know) is no multi-community support. So I can't view at once all of the /c/Canada 's that I'm subscribed to beyond my "front page".